Re: Texas ERCOT power shortages (again) April 13

2021-04-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On 4/14/21 18:07, Niels Bakker wrote: The relevant virtue that's signaled with green energy is that its MWh prices are WAY lower than traditional fossil fuel-based generators. Particularly when you factor in close to no maintenance costs for things like PV, and a nominal 1% drop in

Re: Texas ERCOT power shortages (again) April 13

2021-04-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On 4/14/21 18:03, Stan Barber wrote: I would suggest that the regulation paradigm in Texas does not allow coordinated maintenance scheduling to adapt to supply and load issues (especially in the face of a disaster like the Winter event earlier this year). That would mean a stronger

Re: Texas ERCOT power shortages (again) April 13

2021-04-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On 4/14/21 17:35, Brian Johnson wrote: I appreciate the nuances, but the need to imply that a profit motive was the issue is not proven. This issue was NOT foreseeable except with the perfect reverse 20/20 vision. It’s like saying that I shouldn’t have built the house where the tornado

Re: Texas ERCOT power shortages (again) April 13

2021-04-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On 4/14/21 17:12, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Bringing it back to the topic on hand: How do we keep the grid up? Or plan for it not being up? I think "planning for the grid not being up" is more within our control than the former :-). Data centres serving base power load from solar PV,

Re: Texas ERCOT power shortages (again) April 13

2021-04-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On 4/14/21 15:34, Mike Bolitho wrote: Can we keep this mailing list free of politics please? Being for or against renewable energy has nothing to do with network operations. Not necessarily as all those large data centres popping up in my neighborhood means better Internet for me and my

Re: Texas ERCOT power shortages (again) April 13

2021-04-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On 4/14/21 15:04, Mike Hammett wrote: --- Even as I support renewable plants, I am not yet fully convinced that a quick and massive decommissioning of fossil fuels for base load generation is feasible. --- Nuclear is the only way to have a reliable base load generation that doesn't release

Re: Texas ERCOT power shortages (again) April 13

2021-04-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On 4/14/21 13:35, Billy Croan wrote: Sounds like we all need to start keeping a few days reserve of energy on hand at home now because the utilities can't be trusted to keep their system online in 2021. It just makes sense to plan along those lines, really. Despite popular belief, power

Re: Texas ERCOT power shortages (again) April 13

2021-04-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On 4/14/21 07:44, Yang Yu wrote: a watch that has been cancelled, not an emergency http://www.ercot.com/services/comm/mkt_notices/opsmessages/2021/04 Apr 13 2021 19:22:55 CST Physical Responsive Capability < 2500 MW: ERCOT has cancelled the following notice: ERCOT is issuing a Watch due to

Re: Texas ERCOT power shortages (again) April 13

2021-04-13 Thread Mark Tinka
On 4/14/21 03:49, Sean Donelan wrote: ERCOT ISO Texas has announced the end of today's emergency energy conservation appeal due to a shortage of generation capacity and higher than forecasted demand caused by a cold front. No this is not an old message. Yep, Texas is having power

Re: My First BGP-Hijacking Explanation

2021-04-09 Thread Mark Tinka
On 4/9/21 00:19, Eric Kuhnke wrote: As an anecdotal data point, the only effect this has had is teaching random 14 year olds how to use ordinary consumer grade VPNs, which work just fine. One way or the other, you can't keep the kids from what they want :-). Mark.

Re: DualStack (CGNAT) vs Other Transition methods

2021-04-05 Thread Mark Tinka
On 4/5/21 21:30, Douglas Fischer wrote: Here goes a link fo an excellent analysis of IPv6 and Playstation This says a lot about why some prefer DualStack. https://toreanderson.github.io/2021/02/23/ipv6-support-in-the-playstation-5.html

Re: DualStack (CGNAT) vs Other Transition methods

2021-04-05 Thread Mark Tinka
On 4/5/21 22:00, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG wrote:  Further to that, I’ve done a very complete testing, for a customer, with a PS4 in a LAN with 464XLAT and everything worked fine. Unfortunately, as this was contracted by a customer, I can’t disclose all the test set, but believe me

Re: wow, lots of akamai

2021-04-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On 4/2/21 01:41, Tony Wicks wrote: Local backhaul is plentiful and relatively cheap where as subsea wavelengths are extremely expensive and require months of planning. Funny, it's the exact opposite for us. Mark.

Re: wow, lots of akamai

2021-04-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On 4/2/21 00:56, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: And after all that, I still do not see what we are arguing about? You want the game companies to change their business model, but you do not want to change yours. Please do not say something like “but if they just ….” Unless you want the game

Re: wow, lots of akamai

2021-04-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On 4/1/21 21:01, Jean St-Laurent via NANOG wrote: Are big games roll out really impacting NANOG? or it's more a: Hey I was curious what happened and I thought to ask here on NANOG? The latter, I'd say. Mark.

Re: 10 years from now... (was: internet futures)

2021-03-28 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/29/21 07:21, Eric Kuhnke wrote: The US State Department is already a large customer for dedicated transponder capacity, in C-band hemispheric and Ku beams in some weird places in the world. As a randomly chosen example if you take a look at the roof of the UK embassy in Kabul,

Re: 10 years from now... (was: internet futures)

2021-03-28 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/29/21 02:23, Eric Kuhnke wrote: I am not saying it is an impossible problem to solve, but any system intended for that sort of purpose would have to be designed for circumvention, and not a consumer/COTS adaptation of an off the shelf starlink terminal. Behind the walls of an

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-27 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/27/21 12:20, Cynthia Revström via NANOG wrote: (not directed at anyone specifically) I think for the people who are concerned about the younger generations not having this knowledge, think of how to fix it rather than just giving up on the younger generation. Sure not everyone will

Re: internet futures

2021-03-27 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/27/21 07:30, b...@theworld.com wrote: The video is pretty good particularly where it's most pessimistic. My prediction: It might take a little more than ten years but I'll predict positive ID or you're not getting anywhere useful. And a lot of people here will loathe that.

Re: 10 years from now... (was: internet futures)

2021-03-26 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/26/21 23:30, b...@uu3.net wrote: Oh, sorry to disappoint you, but they are not missing anything.. Internet become a consumer product where data is provided by large corporations similary to TV now. Your avarage Joe consumer does NOT care about NAT and that he cant run services or he

Re: 10 years from now... (was: internet futures)

2021-03-26 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/26/21 23:00, Mark Andrews wrote: There are more smart phones in use in the world today the world than can be addressed by IPv4. Complaining about lack of IPv6 deployment has been legitimate for a long time. Telcos shouldn’t have to deploy NATs. Homes shouldn’t have to deploy NATs.

Re: 10 years from now... (was: internet futures)

2021-03-26 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/26/21 22:12, Andy Ringsmuth wrote: Ten years from now? Easy. We’ll still be talking about the continued shortage of IPv4 address space and (legitimately) complaining about why IPv6 still isn’t the default addressing/routing methodology for the Internet worldwide. Thankfully, the

Re: 10 years from now... (was: internet futures)

2021-03-26 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/26/21 21:42, Michael Thomas wrote: So the obvious question is what will happen to the internet 10 years from now. The last 10 years were all about phones and apps, but that's pretty well played out by now. Gratuitously networked devices like my dishwasher will probably be common, but

Re: internet futures

2021-03-26 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/26/21 19:58, Randy Bush wrote: in 2010, the internet society made some videos on possible internet futures ten years out, i.e. nowish. nothing spot on, but themes can be seen for sure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB4zfGwctGc The production style alone takes me back. I never

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-25 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/25/21 18:51, Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail) wrote: And to push this point further: I don’t claim to speak for all graybeards, but now that I am past the era of enjoying my kids' school activities, and resting on an empty nest, I once again don’t mind being involved in what younger

Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

2021-03-25 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/25/21 03:13, Robert Brockway wrote: Let's keep in mind that it is not fanciful that networks may need to be built from the ground up again. Just maintaining and upgrading the current installed base is enough work as it is. And it cannot be done efficiently without having a true

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-24 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/24/21 17:59, Seth Mattinen wrote: I think age has something to do with that too, and I don't mean this as offensive at all because I've been there done that, but lack of other things going on in life. When I was 19 I had no problem being available on my cell phone at all times. I'd

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-24 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/24/21 17:51, james.cut...@consultant.com wrote: An extension of Mark’s comments could include actually using a voice call if there really is an immediate need — voice message recording is built-in to many smart phones, wireless handsets, and VoIP services. . And this is where - per

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-24 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/24/21 17:43, Mark Tinka wrote: Time is very precious; if you feel something is urgent, call. Sending me a text and getting cross because I didn't reply in 60 seconds just falls on deaf ears. As you say, time is our main asset. And I afford anyone I text the exact same courtesy

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-24 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/24/21 17:31, Tom Beecher wrote:  Real time can be helpful when needed, but when it is not, it feels to me like it becomes significant noise, and often times impossible to track what conversations are when (and when they were.). I agree with this when it comes to messaging apps. I

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-24 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/24/21 17:08, Phineas wrote: Chiming in as a somewhat-younger network engineer here (19) - I think that Discord should be more widely considered and approved as an option across the board here. I’m active on mailing lists, and while they work, at the end of the day I’d much rather be

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-24 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/24/21 16:52, Robert Kisteleki wrote: All in all, I'm happier if email continues to be the backbone of communication here. Same here. But think about this... every smartphone the kids have comes with either an e-mail client, a web browser, or both. Plenty of free e-mail services

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-24 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/24/21 01:00, Sec Lists wrote: ...only to end up with yet another account at yet another data mining (future) monopolist butchering standards... I'm all for moving with the flow and embrace new things as long as it's based on open standards, open protocols, does not lock people in to

Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

2021-03-24 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/23/21 22:33, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: The problem comes when the younger generation *does* need access to the same knowledge - and the older generation is unreachable and/or actually gone. I've been passionate about keeping the work shop style of the early 2000's going, but it's

Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

2021-03-24 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/23/21 20:14, Sabri Berisha wrote: Most of the more effective troubleshooting techniques will require some sort of CLI or CLI-like output. In times of crisis, you'll want to be able to type "show ip bgp summary", instead of waiting for your browser to send a javascript request to a

Re: Peering and Caching for Epic Games, Fortnite, et al

2021-03-23 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/23/21 17:03, Eric Dugas via NANOG wrote: Agreed. The few good examples in Canada are Ubisoft/i3D (now mostly just i3D) and Riot Games. We don't have Valve or Blizzard here. Epic Games seems to use Akamai for downloads/updates and AWS for backend so I don't see how you can

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-23 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/23/21 17:11, Seth Mattinen wrote: Okay great for those apps, but if nobody tells me where the new action is... how does that help me? With the list here at least it's on NANOG's website and they tell you how to join in. This feels like you're saying people are not worthy of being

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-23 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/23/21 16:34, Seth Mattinen wrote: The problem with other "social" formats I've found is that they're often an exclusive club you have to know about through connections or be invited to. You can also be excluded on a whim. What you can learn from that is the new brand marketing

Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

2021-03-23 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/23/21 11:37, Alfie Pates wrote: More opinions, from someone old and jaded enough to prefer IRC but quite a bit younger than the NANOG mailing list itself! I feel like Mattermost bridged into a private IRC server (Matterbridge is really good at puppetry these days:

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-23 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/23/21 11:35, Cynthia Revström wrote: I think this is at least partially true, but I think it is more not wanting to be disrespected at the time they ask these questions. No one was born with this kind of knowledge, and everyone was clueless at some point in time. Totally agree. It is

Re: Reinventing the wheel on a path to deeper learning

2021-03-23 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/23/21 08:41, Cynthia Revström via NANOG wrote: And while Discord is not at all a replacement for mailing lists in my opinion, I think it's important to realize that it (and other chat based things like it) have their place, especially among the younger groups. Best advice we can

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-23 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/23/21 08:22, Cynthia Revström via NANOG wrote: Using a chat system they are already familiar with to ask more casual questions is a lot easier for some. Especially if you are thinking of people who are just starting out, some of which will be part of the next generation of network

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-23 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/23/21 02:22, Tomasz Rola wrote: I am not going to lament much, either. It is just how it goes. On the brighter side, there will also be a minority, who will come to email exactly because they will be aspiring power users. I think there will always be some aspiring power users, so it is

Re: OT: Re: Facebook and other walled gardens

2021-03-23 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/22/21 19:22, Andy Ringsmuth wrote: Sigh. It is probably a losing battle. You kids get off my grass! You're right about that last part. The kids are using what they feel gives them value and simplicity. I'm old skool, but I'll be the first one to find a way to reach them via the

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-23 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/22/21 17:55, Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote: Part of my struggle is that I fail to see how it scales to poll multiple sites (or app icon notifications) when there are 10s, 100s, or even more things to check.  This is /exactly/ one of the reasons that I *strongly* /prefer/ email, it

Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

2021-03-23 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/22/21 15:14, Mike Hammett wrote: I would love to have HTTP GUI that just does all of the dirty work. However, a sufficient number of people affiliated with that organization do indeed need to be able to CLI their way through the troubleshooting process for when the HTTP GUI inevitably

Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

2021-03-23 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/21/21 16:03, Noah wrote: When we requested for feedback, them gen-z cried out loud for interactions to happen on some social media app through groups or channels, and since they are the target audience and the majority, we settled for discord and telegram which they actively engage

Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

2021-03-23 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/21/21 03:45, Eric Kuhnke wrote: But it's another thing to consider that we have a whole new generation of people who /don't know and don't care/ what's going underneath the GUI and might not be able to do anything with the OS running on bare metal, if they have to. If we intend to

Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

2021-03-23 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/21/21 03:34, David Siegel wrote: ...not to mention that all mature networks are moving more towards GUI front ends for their automated network.  As the complexity of a network increases, CLI access becomes considerably more risky. The idea that "real engineers use the CLI" is

Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

2021-03-23 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/21/21 01:52, Brielle wrote: This is how I’m viewing a lot of this too. It’s like the posts on stack exchange et al, Reddit, and various forums that are just closed with “fixed” and no details or follow up. Kinda defeats the whole purpose of a mailing list with an archive since the

Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

2021-03-23 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/20/21 23:43, Tom Beecher wrote: A large portion of these emails lately have contained some variation of 'contact me off list'. How does that provide any benefit to the community? Is anyone else in the community getting any information about what providers may be on a pathway that would

Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

2021-03-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/20/21 20:06, Randy Bush wrote: i do not find the volume or diversity on the nanog list problematic. in fact, i suspect its diversity and openness are major factors in it being the de facto global anything-ops list. perhaps we do not need to fix that. Simple. As. That. Mark.

Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

2021-03-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/20/21 16:54, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: Unfortunately, the *rest* of the thread did more damage to Friday's S:N ratio than the original post did. This! There are many threads on here I don't find useful after 2 posts. So I'll just gloss over new posts on that thread (if not outright

Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

2021-03-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/20/21 15:13, Niels Bakker wrote: The volume isn't the point, the S:N ratio is. Mails like this thread's starter are off-topic and reduce the value of the list to its subscribers. Your reasoning is easy, common and fallacious. Plenty of volume being created for something - I presume

Re: ASE - 100 Gig Wave

2021-03-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/18/21 18:09, JASON BOTHE via NANOG wrote: I doubt that. You’ve been at it for months with requests all over the world. It was only a matter of time before someone said something. I'm in two minds about this... I'm on & off NANOG, so have no recollection of the OP "doing this" more

Re: ASE - 100 Gig Wave

2021-03-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/18/21 18:11, William Herrin wrote: Yes and no. "Would you help me identify who does cable between A and B?" may be on topic. "I'm soliciting bids for X" is certainly not. The "three year term" statement pushed you solidly into the latter. Tend to agree with this. Asking what's

Re: IPv6 filtering at network edge?

2021-03-16 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/16/21 17:15, Saku Ytti wrote: Dunno, ff02::1 would be very necessary (i.e. ND), ff02:: I have no idea. But you should do yourself favor, before you drop ICMP packets, allow ND: Not that you should see it over an exchange point, but LDPv6 runs over ff02::2. In case that's your style,

Re: SFI/SBI/Transit - Dumping

2021-03-16 Thread Mark Tinka
On 3/16/21 13:18, Niels Bakker wrote: I think you're asking this on the wrong list. We're network operators, not lawyers with a specialisation in competitive markets regulation. Well, yes and no... No, we aren't lawyers, but yes in that there is some merit to the question from a

Re: Famous operational issues

2021-03-12 Thread Mark Tinka
Hardly famous and not service-affecting in the end, but figured I'd share an incident from our side that occurred back in 2018. While commissioning a new node in our Metro-E network, an IPv6 point-to-point address was mis-typed. Instead of ending in /126, it ended in /12. This happened in

Re: Support for End User Services

2021-02-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/20/21 19:18, Mike Hammett wrote: Leave aside any conversation about whether the business has the ability (or approval) to pay for it or not. Is it appropriate for organizations that provide services to end-users to require that you are a paying customer to contact their support? Is

Re: Carrier Neutral Site - Freetown, Sierra Leone?

2021-02-19 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/19/21 14:34, Martijn Schmidt wrote: My own admittedly relatively limited experience with networking in Africa has always been that people truly, honestly want to help make things better whenever it's reasonably possible (e.g. you obviously can't break local laws, or ignore a

Re: Carrier Neutral Site - Freetown, Sierra Leone?

2021-02-19 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/19/21 13:47, Jörg Kost wrote: Hello, I am sure it could resolve the discussion and the topic easier and more helpful, if you can line out what exactly is the issue and where help is needed, and not comparing and generalizing the order of a circuit for a whole continent to walking or

Re: Carrier Neutral Site - Freetown, Sierra Leone?

2021-02-19 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/19/21 13:19, Rod Beck wrote: I am sure South Africa is better. I am really referring to French speaking Western Africa. Well, South Africa is just one country out of 54. And French-speaking West Africa is also a multitude of countries. Mark.

Re: Famous operational issues

2021-02-19 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/19/21 10:40, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: He is. He asked a perfectly relevant question based on what he saw of the physical setup in front of him. And he kept his cool when being talked down to. I’d hire him the next minute, personally speaking. In the early 2000's, with that

Re: Famous operational issues

2021-02-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/19/21 00:37, Warren Kumari wrote: 5: Another one. In the early 2000s I was working for a dot-com boom company. We are building out our first datacenter, and I'm installing a pair of Cisco 7206s in 811 10th Ave. These will run basically the entire company, we have some transit, we

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

2021-02-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/17/21 16:09, Ben Cannon wrote: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/energy/2021/02/16/electricity-retailer-griddys-unusual-plea-to-texas-customers-leave-now-before-you-get-a-big-bill/

Re: Carrier Neutral Site - Freetown, Sierra Leone?

2021-02-18 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/18/21 19:45, Rod Beck wrote: Every time I try to bring a circuit into Africa it is like a complete tour of Dante's Hell. A broad brush for such a large place. Mark.

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

2021-02-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/17/21 20:04, Lady Benjamin PD Cannon wrote: Other than financials limiting capacity, modern residential solar systems do not care a wink about what sort of load their DC is driving.  The inverters also are rated for continuous duty. Solar can drive any load. But to support heavy loads

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

2021-02-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/16/21 19:27, Brandon Svec wrote: Mismanagement and poor planning are primarily to blame.  One can't just blame the weather.  We know weather will be bad and have extreme variations. You mean some like UK airports :-)? Mark.

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

2021-02-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/16/21 18:50, John Von Essen wrote: I just assumed most people in Texas have heat pumps- AC in the summer and minimal heating in the winter when needed. When the entire state gets a deep freeze, everybody is running those heat pumps non-stop, and the generation capacity simply wasn’t

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

2021-02-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/16/21 17:45, JASON BOTHE via NANOG wrote: The professor has it right. Before the state privatized the grid and made ERCOT, we never had these problems. Every few years, these private companies complain they need a rate hike because they need a grant to ‘beef up’ the infrastructure

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

2021-02-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/16/21 16:28, Michael Thomas wrote: We use propane. It's less dense energy-wise than gasoline, but it's really easy to switch over. Same here, for our winter. Cheaper than power, and is fast-acting. Mark.

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

2021-02-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/16/21 14:23, Bret Clark wrote: Texas doesn't generally experience this type of extreme cold. The power grids are being overload due to people using their electric heat or electric portable heaters. Any shared resource will have its limits exposed when patterns spiral, unusually.

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

2021-02-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/16/21 14:22, John Sage wrote: You don't understand Texas politics relative to the United States at large. I certainly do not :-). Which is fine, but this is a state that had deliberately prevented interconnects (see: ERCOT, above) into any extended national grid, principally

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

2021-02-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/16/21 14:14, Rod Beck wrote: I agree. Germany spent well over 200 billion Euros on wind and solar subsidies and over 85% of the country's energy consumption is still non-renewable. Wind power is randomly generated. I really don't to depend it for either personal or business needs.

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

2021-02-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/16/21 14:09, Rod Beck wrote: The problems with renewables is that you can't switch on or off and there is no good storage solution. While solar + batteries would be good backup options, they would do little to support electric-driven heating, as solar irradiation during winter is too

Re: Infomart Dallas is on generator

2021-02-17 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/16/21 03:05, Randy Bush wrote: https://www.texastribune.org/2011/02/08/texplainer-why-does-texas-have-its-own-power-grid/ That was a good read. Mark.

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

2021-02-15 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/16/21 07:49, Matthew Petach wrote: Isn't that a result of ERCOT stubbornly refusing to interconnect with the rest of the national grid, out of an irrational fear of coming under federal regulation? I suspect that trying to be self-sufficient works most of the time--but when you get

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

2021-02-15 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/16/21 06:34, Cory Sell wrote: Ercot has already released actual documentation of the outputs. Wind is NOT the biggest loss here. Even if wind was operating at 100% capacity, we’d be in the same boat due to gas and fossil fuel-related generation being decimated. Estimated 4GW lost for

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

2021-02-15 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/16/21 06:17, Robert Jacobs wrote: How about letting us Texans have more natural gas power plants or even let the gas be delivered to the plants we have so they can provide more power in an emergency. Did not help that 20% of our power is now wind which of course in an ice storm like

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

2021-02-15 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/16/21 04:14, Sean Donelan wrote: Poweroutage.us posted a terrific map, showing the jurisdictional borders of the Texas power outages versus the storm related power outages elsewhere in the country. https://twitter.com/PowerOutage_us/status/1361493394070118402 Sometimes

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-15 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/15/21 09:59, na...@jack.fr.eu.org wrote: Yet both ps5 and xbox series x have ipv6 support A console released in 2013 do not, but its successor released in 2020 have it How wild is this, I wonder why ? IPv6 also runs on hardware that was shipped as far back as 2003, if not

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/15/21 08:25, William Herrin wrote: Well actually, that's not entirely true. One thing holding back IPv6 is the unfortunately routine need to turn it off in order to get one or another IPv4 thing back working again. Like the disney thing earlier in this thread. Or like my experience

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/14/21 22:34, Sabri Berisha wrote: You are 100% Correct. Perhaps we can get Jeff Bezos to give 25% extra off at the next Cyber Monday event to those accessing amazon.com via IPv6. That will not only drive IPv6 deployment at eyeball networks, it's a feasible plan as well. IF good ol'

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/14/21 21:56, Randy Bush wrote: hint: that idea is from the late '90s. the next bright idea for what would help ipv6 take over the internet was 3gpp. it's been a long line of things which would make ipv6 take off. and at least ten million messages on mailing lists such as this. and

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/14/21 04:24, Mark Foster wrote: So the business case will be the 'killer app' or perhaps 'killer service' that's IPv6-only and that'll provide a business reason. But chicken and egg.. who wants to run a service that's IPv6-only and miss out on such a big userbase? Perhaps it's time

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-14 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/14/21 02:00, scott wrote: I would be looking for a new job and it is a much larger network than 2 routers is a big city.  :)    Sabri Berisha was correct: "The true enemy here is mid-level management that refuses to prioritize deployment of IPv6.   What we should be discussing is

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-12 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/12/21 21:56, scott wrote: 100% agreed!  Been whining about that here many times.  I have been trying to get IPv6 going for a long time, but the above stopped my plans.  One thing I mentioned recently, though, is we just got a $BIGCUSTOMER and their requirement was we do IPv6.  So

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-11 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/12/21 06:41, Randy Bush wrote: iij joined in '97. and helped others who asked. but i'm from the rainy pacific northwest (of the states). we don't try to push water uphill. As my Gambian friend would say, "Lead a horse to water, and teach it how to fish". My first join was in

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-11 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/12/21 02:51, Randy Bush wrote: i must say i am impressed that the ipv6 must be deployed now and it solves it all religion is still being shouted from the street corner 25 years on. it is as if the shouters think they will convince any body or change anything. folk will deploy X when

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-11 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/11/21 16:29, Owen DeLong wrote: Ridiculous… TCP/IP was designed to be a peer to peer system where each endpoint was uniquely addressable whether reachable by policy or not. IPv6 restores that ability and RFC-1918 is a bandaid for an obsolete protocol. Stop making excuses and let’s fix

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-10 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/10/21 19:50, Doug Barton wrote: I also reject the premise that any org, no matter how large, needs to uniquely number every endpoint. When I was doing IPAM for a living, not allowing the workstations in Tucson to talk to the printers in Singapore was considered a feature.

Re: New High Fiber Count Deep Sea Cables

2021-02-02 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/1/21 17:13, Rod Beck wrote: I think that report is a summary of the thinking that led to the new higher count cables. In fact, those researchers work for the companies that laid those cables. The new cables are based on the ideas outlined in that paper? spacing regen farther apart,

Re: New High Fiber Count Deep Sea Cables

2021-02-01 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/1/21 12:30, Rod Beck wrote: Here is the intellectual foundation or underpinnings of the  new deep sea design which are enabling fiber pair counts as high as 24. I think the engineers might enjoy this. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8369356

Re: [**EXTERNAL**] Re: Half Fibre Pair

2021-01-27 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/27/21 19:54, Mike Hammett wrote: I believe strand counts were small because the power needed for that many amplifiers was too much to bear for budgets. Also because the amount of capacity we are talking about nowadays, driven by the content folk, is something telco's could only (and

Re: [**EXTERNAL**] Re: Half Fibre Pair

2021-01-27 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/27/21 18:11, Rod Beck wrote: What is interesting is this new deep sea design. In the old days cables had 4 to 8 pairs max. Now I am seeing Orange talking about 18 pairs and 24 pairs. With more widely regeneration. Because of the way current submarine cables are being built (mainly by

Re: [**EXTERNAL**] Re: Half Fibre Pair

2021-01-27 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/27/21 16:52, Fox, Barbara wrote: I asked a submarine guy how much the fibers can carry because this sounded low to me.  His response: That was just an example to illustrate the commercial contracting, not the technical capabilities. Cables currently being laid in the sea are going

Re: Half Fibre Pair

2021-01-27 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/27/21 13:39, Rod Beck wrote: How much spectrum is a half fibre? It must be standardized in some fashion. It would be based on the amount of capacity each fibre in the overall system can carry across a given line system span. So say a cable system is able to carry 960Gbps per fibre

Re: Half Fibre Pair

2021-01-27 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/26/21 22:51, Rod Beck wrote: Can someone explain to me what is a half fibre pair? I took it literally to mean a single fibre strand but someone insisted it was a large quantity of spectrum. Please illuminate. On or off list as you please. It is language used in the submarine world,

Re: Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-19 Thread Mark Tinka
On 1/19/21 17:15, Sean Donelan wrote: There is only one problem in engineering -- scaling. Country internet shutdowns never go to zero.  There's usually 5% to 15% left over connectivity. There are always a few embassies, international companies, NGOs and even government offices itself

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